“My Grandmother Spoke to Tigers” published in Chicago Quarterly Review’s The South Asian American Issue
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Swati Khurana was born in New Delhi, raised in the Hudson Valley, and lives and
works in New York City. Memory, pasts, artifice, artifacts, private moments, public
spaces, popular culture, and the seductive promises made by rituals: all of these
inform her art, writing, and tarot practice. Her artwork has been shown in over a
hundred group exhibitions and festivals, and her writing has been published in
The New York Times, Guernica, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Offing, The Rumpus,
and in the Good Girls Marry Doctors anthology. She has received support from
New York Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Center for Fiction for
novel-in-progress The No.1 Printshop of Lahore. She holds a MFA in Fiction from
Hunter College, a M.A. in Studio Art & Art Criticism from NYU, and a B.A. in History from
Columbia University. In 2018, she attended UnionDocs’ Podcast School, and Continuing Coach Education’s
Coaching Essentials program, inspiring her forthcoming podcast, “Tarot Books Radio,” in which the format of
conversations, centering women of color artists, writers, and activists. A follower of lunar cycles, she feels most
at home in the quiet, velvety darkness of night.